Communities

Writing
Writing
Codidact Meta
Codidact Meta
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
Photography & Video
Photography & Video
Scientific Speculation
Scientific Speculation
Cooking
Cooking
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Judaism
Judaism
Languages & Linguistics
Languages & Linguistics
Software Development
Software Development
Mathematics
Mathematics
Christianity
Christianity
Code Golf
Code Golf
Music
Music
Physics
Physics
Linux Systems
Linux Systems
Power Users
Power Users
Tabletop RPGs
Tabletop RPGs
Community Proposals
Community Proposals
tag:snake search within a tag
answers:0 unanswered questions
user:xxxx search by author id
score:0.5 posts with 0.5+ score
"snake oil" exact phrase
votes:4 posts with 4+ votes
created:<1w created < 1 week ago
post_type:xxxx type of post
Search help
Notifications
Mark all as read See all your notifications »

Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

Activity for Sylvester‭

Type On... Excerpt Status Date
Comment Post #294623 I do agree, the question was poorly written, and pretty passive-aggressive in its own right. Suffice it to say the question would've been better off either being directly addressed for clarification or closing, or just left unanswered.
(more)
11 months ago
Comment Post #294623 While technically true, this isn't an answer of the user's intended question so much as it is a nitpick on their grammar/choice of words, which is completely unhelpful.
(more)
11 months ago
Comment Post #294540 That turned out to be correct! I've posted an answer.
(more)
about 1 year ago
Edit Post #294566 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Answer A: Cargo can't find installed Gtk libraries
It turns out that jmb's comment was correct; my version of `gio` was too old. After being led by Virgil through the nine circles of dependency hell, I eventually just upgraded to Ubuntu 25. Unfortunately I don't remember whether I then had to manually install the newer version of `gio` or not,...
(more)
about 1 year ago
Edit Post #294540 Post edited:
about 1 year ago
Edit Post #294540 Post edited:
about 1 year ago
Edit Post #294540 Initial revision about 1 year ago
Question Cargo can't find installed Gtk libraries
I'm trying to build a Rust program that uses Gtk4, specifically riff, but I think any Rust program that depends on Gtk4 will reproduce this error. However, Cargo keeps complaining that various Gtk-related libraries don't exist. Here is the output of the compiler: ```txt Compiling openssl-s...
(more)
about 1 year ago
Comment Post #289914 The only thing I can find that's similar to what you want is a plugin called [Texty](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=datasert.vscode-texty). However, it uses JavaScript, not Python, for its custom scripts.
(more)
almost 3 years ago
Edit Post #290087 Initial revision almost 3 years ago
Answer A: Command to format code from repo into single markdown file
You need to use backslashes (`\`) to escape your grave accents (``` ` ```). Otherwise, Bash tries to see them as enclosing a command, as you would do in a command like ``` echo `which python3` ```. So, with all the backslashes added in, your code will look like this: ```bash find . -name "...
(more)
almost 3 years ago
Comment Post #288302 I can't reproduce this either... I'm using Ubuntu 22.04, with VSCode 1.77.3 (same as yours was).
(more)
over 3 years ago
Edit Post #287660 Post edited:
Improved syntax highlighting and code indentation
over 3 years ago
Suggested Edit Post #287660 Suggested edit:
Improved syntax highlighting and code indentation
(more)
helpful over 3 years ago